President Joe Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg trolled Florida governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis during his appearance on CNN on Sunday.

Buttigieg was initially at a loss for words when the CNN host played a ridiculous campaign video produced by DeSantis’ presidential campaign which bragged about his fascist war against LGBTQ+ In the background, DeSantis’ images were juxtaposed with shirtless, muscular men as dramatic music played.

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When Buttigieg was asked to react to the video, he was not too comfortable in airing his views about the same since he was representing the administration of a sitting president.

“I’m going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in between oiled-up, shirtless bodybuilders, and just get to the bigger issue that is on my mind whenever I see this stuff in the policy space, which is, again: Who are you trying to help? Who are you trying to make better off? And what public policy problems do you get up in the morning thinking about how to solve? I just don’t understand the mentality of somebody who gets up in the morning thinking that he’s going to prove his worth by competing over who can make life hardest for a hard-hit community that is already so vulnerable in America,” he said.

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Buttigieg went on to note his recent travels to places around the country that are using funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that President Joe Biden signed into law in 2021. “I just don’t understand the mentality of somebody who gets up in the morning thinking that he’s going to prove his worth by competing over who can make life hardest for a hard-hit community that is already so vulnerable in America,” he said.